A deal to finally release $18 million in gambling revenue to Pittsburgh was rejected in the continuing battle between the city and the Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority [ICA], its state-appointed financial overseer.

The settlement would’ve transferred $7 million to the city’s general fund and $11 million toward pensions and ended the city’s lawsuit against the authority, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

The deal also would have revoked the ICA’s ability to withhold gambling revenue from the city, which was established by Act 11 of 2004 in the state Legislature. Lawyers for the ICA were unsure if they could agree to a deal that revoked powers established by the Legislature or whether they could put money into the city’s general fund, instead of allocating all of it for pensions.

The two sides have said they will continue negotiating.

CCAC audit upcoming

Allegheny County Controller Chelsa Wagner will audit the Community College of Allegheny County after a faculty union questioned several policies that began under President Quintin Bullock.

Among Bullock’s new policies, who has led the college since 2014, was to bill students who registered, but never attended a class and then refer their debts to a collection agency if they did not pay.

The college said the University of Pittsburgh has a similar policy, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, but other experts said many colleges simply disenroll and never charge no-show students.

Questions were also raised about how the college calculates its enrollment figures based on these no-show students. Enrollments at CCAC fell 26 percent between 2010 and 2015, according to the Tribune-Review.

Pittsburgh Police Chief Scott Schubert made the rounds to city council members last week to ease concerns over a proposed half-million dollar allocation to B-Three Solutions, a software contractor one of his officers raised concerns about in a recent whistleblower lawsuit. In multiple meetings, Schubert — as well as Grant Gittlen, the Community and Government Affairs officer for Mayor Bill Peduto — stressed the need to fund the vital public safety systems that officers rely on to file crime reports and capture data.

Using the state’s Right-to-Know Law, designed to enable citizens to access public records, PublicSource filed requests for emails by providing names of city employees, keywords and a time period to enable the city to locate the public records. The city has repeatedly denied the requests, arguing that they’re too vague.